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In a situation like this, every minute counts. it -- people can't stay under that rubble for too much longer. and in addition, the rescue workers face the most daunting conditions because aftershock after aftershock continues to rock through this island. making the already unstable debris incredibly perilous for the work ersz. in fact, yesterday the police commissioner said that it was time to say no more at one particular site. the ctv building, and that was very distressing for some japanese citizens because there are some japanese citizens who are buried there in the rubble and they were ho...

Orleans resident, i knew that the story of the disaster was, had been pieced together by these two independent teams of investigators over a one-year period. and we knew the story and new orleans but i think most americans still think, hey, big storm, people living below sea level. so, what shocked me was that there's a whistleblower that i found within the army corps of engineers who has credible and validated evidence that some of the same mistakes, let's be nice about it, are being made in the new, improved system that is supposed to be protecting us the next time around. i think that shoul...

There. apple's irgs pad selling like hot cakes, just like anything this company makes. they sold already its millionth ipad friday, less than a month after the tap let's launch. let's get our heads around that number. 1 million. it averages out to about 35,714 sold every single day. i think most of those are owned by members of this team. also, tennessee is not the only place out there with some water problems. president obama today signing a disaster declaration with the entire common wealth of massachusetts. that's because of a two-day-old break in a major waterline 12 miles west of boston...

Parts of the world that are most impacted by water problems. you look at this. it is a global problem. how can one person make a difference? >> there as lot of ways people can really have an important impact on our water resources. i would say the first one is just to understand your personal water foot print. teach your child when they're brushing their teeth. that water is a precious, precious resource. understand the water shed that you live in. >> meaning what? i live near the hudson river for instance, a place, trying to protect it and clean it up. we here in new york city are familiar wi...

>> mr. mayor, i know it's been an awfully tense, probably a sleepless 48 hours for you. we understand you've been getting dozens and dozens of urgent calls from your residents there. what have people been phoning you about? >> the biggest issue we've been having on the banks of the paxtuxet, people there are used to some flooding. they're not used to some magnitude, nor the same kind of flooding problems. it is more than 24 hours since the river crested and we're still seeing the scene behind me where water is not receding as quickly as we would have envisioned. so we're having water problems ...